Frontier living /written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis.
- New York : Lyons Press, (c)2000.
- 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
"An illustrated guide to pioneer life in America, including log cabins, furniture, tools, clothing, and more"--Cover. Originally published: Cleveland : World Pub. Company, 1961. 1. The Deepwater Frontier 2. The Piedmont 3. The Southern Valleys 4. The Great Salient 5. Road and River 6. The Old Northwest 7. The Cotton Frontier 8. Shrinking Distances 9. Beyond the Mississippi 10. Caravans to Santa Fe 11. The Fur Trade and the Mountain Men 12. The Bitter Road to Oregon 13. The Harried Saints 14. Alta California 15. El Dorado 16. Two Thousand Miles 17. The Cow Hunt and the Cowhand 18. The Sodbusters and the Cattle Drives 19. The Run
North America in 1725. The Flintlock Rifle -- People in the Woods -- Invasion -- The Log Cabin -- Household Articles -- Food -- Clothes -- Hunting -- Indians -- Forts -- Medicine and Witchcraft -- Justice -- Childhood and Sports -- Pack Trains. The Seven Years' War. The Revolutionary War -- The Garden of Eden -- The People -- Daily Life in the Clearings -- Linen -- Wool -- Weaving, Dyeing, and Fulling -- Housekeeping -- Sweet'nin' -- Outdoor Work -- Beef Cattle -- Farming -- Villages and Trades -- Saturday -- Sunday -- School -- Parties -- The Land Ordinances, 1785-1790. The Travelers -- The Floating Forts -- Navigation -- Trade on the Rivers -- Pirates -- Keelboats -- Upstream Navigation -- The Rivermen -- Other Boats -- Indian Treaties and Louisiana, 1795-1803 -- The Louisiana Purchase. Public Land -- The National Road -- The Freight Wagons -- The Coach Lines -- Inns -- Farms -- The Barn -- Corn -- Scythe and Cradle -- Water -- Housekeeping -- Clothes -- People -- Religion -- Towns -- Money -- Utopias -- The "Permanent" Indian Frontier. Steam Navigation -- The Erie Canal -- The Pennsylvania System -- Early Railroads -- Southwestern Boundaries. Missouri -- Texas -- The Black Hawk War -- The Iowa Squatters -- Buck and Bright -- The Claims Clubs. The Jump-Off -- Guns -- The Trail -- Santa Fe and the Ranchos -- Trading. The Beaver and the "Company" -- The Company Posts -- The Rendezvous. The Missionaries Organization of the Wagon Train -- The Oregon Trail -- The Order of the Day -- The Buffalo -- On the Trail -- The Pathfinder of the West. The Prophet -- Exodus -- The Promised Land. Missions, Presidios, and Pueblos -- Gay Prosperity -- The Ranchos and Trade -- Gringo Settlers -- Boundaries and "Manifest Destiny". The Rush of the Argonauts -- The Diggings -- The Roaring Camps -- Washoe and Pike's Peak. Stages in California -- Freight and Mail -- The Overland Mail -- The Concord Coah -- The Pony Express -- The Civil War and the West -- Thirty Miles an Hour -- Laying the Rails -- The Golden Spike -- The Clearing of the Plains. The Longhorns -- The Cow Hunt -- Horses -- Cowhands -- Saddles and Equipment -- "Bleeding Kansas" and Homesteading. Soddies -- Water -- The Cattle Trails -- The Long Drive -- Sheep -- Barbed Wire.
Describes the daily lives of American pioneers who explored and settled the territories west of the Appalachians.
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Frontier and pioneer life--United States--Juvenile literature. Frontier and pioneer life.